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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5 km WSW of Darrington, Washington

· 8.5 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 21 kmSkagit County 30 kmWhatcom County 68 kmIsland County 75 kmKing County 84 kmChelan County 89 kmKitsap County 99 kmSan Juan County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Snohomish County, 21 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2561 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 48.2365, -121.6715. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Skagit County, WA 30 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Whatcom County, WA 68 km (43 mi) S of here earthquakes near Whatcom County
Island County, WA 75 km (46 mi) E of here earthquakes near Island County
King County, WA 84 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near King County
Chelan County, WA 89 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Chelan County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

52 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.0 8 km NNE of Hamilton, Washington
  2. 2.8 9 km NNE of Hamilton, Washington
  3. 1.9 8 km NNE of Hamilton, Washington
  4. 2.3 4 km SW of Darrington, Washington
  5. 1.8 9 km NNE of Hamilton, Washington
  6. 1.7 3 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  7. 1.9 3 km SSE of Sultan, Washington
  8. 1.7 4 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  9. 1.9 5 km NNW of North Sultan, Washington
  10. 1.7 5 km ENE of Lake Roesiger, Washington
  11. 1.7 3 km WSW of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  12. 1.5 5 km NNW of North Sultan, Washington
  13. 1.7 3 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  14. 1.6 6 km SSE of Oso, Washington
  15. 1.8 4 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2019-07-12 — it released about 27,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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